Alissa working on a collage in the studio

Alissa looking through prints for misprints and mistakes

Alissa standing on a table showing off a series of prints

The artist taking pictures of the work for his website

Alissa prepping an area for screen printing

Art Assistant Work

•Constructed a mockup of a gallery space for an art show and managed the layout and spacing of the pieces on the walls

•Set up the art show, including hanging the art on the walls and creating artwork labels

•Designed and managed a website (SeanBergArt.com) to host a secondary online interactive art show to increase the exposure of the artist’s work during Covid

An image of the artwork pill Line. Pill Line is mixed media including markers, paint, and cut paper. The imagery is made up of monstrous creations in the pill line in a prison, going from ambiguous blobs to large distinct personalities. — ***Pill Line***
**Mixed Media on Paper**
**2020**
**58” x 99”**

•Designed the layout for the brick wall

•Constructed the brick wall using pieces of paper individually cut and glued down

An image of the artwork cellular division, a screen print. The piece contains repeated variations of the same screen prints in a grid. The imagery contains an image of the artist in prison and other associated prison imagery. — ***Cellular Division***
**Screenprint on Paper**
**2020**
**74” x 73” (11” x 15” each)**

•Assisted in pulling the screens

•Collaborated with the artist to decide on the layout of individual pieces and the larger combined piece

An image of the artwork Transference Neurosis, a mixed media collage detailing imagery pulled from a year in the artist's life transferred onto panel. — ***Transference Neurosis***
**Mixed Media Collage on Panel**
**2020**
**49” x 74"**

•Collected and created imagery to be transferred onto the piece

•Assisted in transferring the imagery onto the piece using a transfer medium

An image of the artwork Abstract History. A mixed media collage containing transfers of images of the artists previous work cut up into pieces and combined. — ***Abstract History***
**Mixed Media Collage on Panel**
**2019**
**18” x 20”**

•Collaborated with the artist throughout the entire piece

•Created printed collages of the artist’s past work to transfer onto the piece

•Assisted in transferring the prints onto the piece using a transfer medium

An image of the artwork Waiting to Vote in Iowa. A Mixed Media Collage on Panel depicting scenes and imagery from inside prisons — ***Waiting to Vote in Iowa***
**Mixed Media Collage on Panel**
**2020**
**24” x 18”**

•Curated printed images to be used throughout the piece

•Assisted in transferring the images onto the board

An image of the I.D.O.C. Monsters screen-prints. Three on paper and three on shirts that are yellow, pink, and red. — ***I.D.O.C. Monsters***
**Screenprint on Paper**
**2020**
**29” x 22.5” each**

•Created the 8 layers making up the screenprint in photoshop using a drawing made by the artist.

•Aided in choosing and mixing the colors for every layer

•Assisted in pulling the screenprints and selecting the final pieces for the gallery

A protest poster of a protester holding a sign that reads “Black Americans are 4% of Iowa’s population, yet fill 25.4% of Iowa’s Prisons.”

A protest poster of a protester holding a sign that reads “The YOUTH DESERVE Education NOT Incarceration.”

A protest poster of a protester holding a sign that reads “I CAN’T BREATHE.”

A protest poster of a protester holding a sign that reads “Black Lives Matter.”

A protest poster of a protester holding a sign that reads “NO Justice NO PEACE.”

A protest poster of a protester holding a sign that reads “HOW MANY WEREN’T FILMED.”

A protest poster of a protester holding a sign that reads “The USA holds 22% of the world’s prisoners, yet only contains 4% of the world’s population.”

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Screenprint on Paper

2020

19” x 13” each

•Created the screenprint layers (the base, words, and word outlines) from drawings made by the artist using Photoshop

•Chose, tested, and mixed the colors

•Assisted in pulling the prints and selecting the final pieces

How Many Times

Video Art

2020

•Designed and produced the entire video, using images of protest posters supplied by the artist

•Edited images of 200 protest posters for the video

The images displayed in this video are photo captures of real physical protest posters. Many of these were inspired by identical posters seen across the United States throughout 2020. The physical copies were distributed across the cities of Waterloo, Cedar Falls, and Hudson. For a list of sources, click here.

Art Assistant Work

Work Experience: YMCA Campaigns

Alissa Brimeyer | UX Designer